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Total number of records: 61

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items38
Archives23

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture22
Brotherton Collection2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
war61
community life22
occupations19
culture18
agriculture17
education15
english language - dialects13
food13
folk music12
manners and customs11

Count of Place

PlaceCount
France37
Great Britain2
Florence (Italy)1
Francia1
Poland1
Russia1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)26
Lenotre, G (1855-1935)14
Lees, Frederic (1872-)8
Dunn, Ginette6
Castelot, Andre5
Bessand-Massenet, Anne4
Bessand-Massenet, Pierre (1899-1985)4
Pasanen, Leena4
Manceron, Claude3
Auribeau, Pierre D' (1756-1843)2

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From 190047

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France and the next war : a French view of modern war

Colin, Jean Lambert Alphonse (1864-1917); Pope-Hennessy, Ladislas Herbert Richard (1875-1942)

[1914]

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Le voile levé pour les curieux, ou, Le secret de la révolution de France : rélévé à l'aide de la Franc-Maçonnerie : suivi de la Conjuration contre la religion catholique et les souverains

Lefranc, François abbé (1739-1792); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982); Lefranc, François abbé (1739-1792)

1816

"Conjuration contre la religion catholique et les souverains" has its own t.p. and is separately paged.

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The French Revolution

Manceron, Claude; Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982); Wolf, Patricia

1977

Also known as: The age of the French Revolution. Originally published in France as 'Les hommes de la liberté, I, Les vingt ans du roi' by Editions Robert Laffont, Paris, 1972.

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Concert Party
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Concert Party

[1970s]

Copy of a photographic postcard dating from around 1916/1917, of an all-female concert party group dressed in pierrot-like costumes. The women are thought to be Miss Lena Ashwell's Concert Party (poss...

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Sound Recording, Hampshire

Wakelin, Martyn F

1964

Charles Sheppard, recorded in Bishop's Sutton; talks about working with pigs; rook starving [scaring] after the corn sown; scarecrows; service in the Rifle Brigade during World War One, in France; ret...

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Sound Recording, South Yorkshire

Russell, Ian

7 August 1972

George Hancock recorded in conversation at home, Sheephill Farm, in the Ringinglow area of Sheffield. Mrs. George Hancock also contributes. Talk of (dairy) farming; Penistone and Bakewell markets; alt...

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The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel : citizen and secretary of Florence

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527); Neville, Henry (1620-1694)

1695

Wing, M 131. "The history of Florence," "The prince," "The discourses, " and "The art of war" each has special title-page, dated 1694. Pages 181-198, 263-264 and 315-316 omitted; page 44 mispaged ...

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Sound Recording, West Yorkshire

16 February 1981

[Collector announcement]; Ben Pearce, recorded in Leeds on the 16 February 1981 [conclusion of interview which starts on tape LAVC/SRE/A601]; talks about bombers flying in formation, attacking Sumatra...

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Sound Recording, East Sussex

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

[1964]

Mr. W. Glapson, recorded in Horam; talks about his smallholding and retirement from farming; farm work - mowing corn with a scythe, binding and stooking, stacking; modern farming; first jobs, aged fou...

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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

25 June 1974

Bob Hart, recorded in Snape [?in the collector's home], talks about his family; experience of World War One, war injuries, hospitalisation in Cambridge and Sidcup, writing poetry, fellow patients, inc...

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Sound Recordings, Suffolk

Dunn, Ginette

15 July 1974

Bob Hart, recorded at home in Snape, sings 'Keep the Home Fires Burning', followed by comments on the song and recollections of his time spent in France during World War One; sings 'Long Trail A-Windi...

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